Caron Butler's inside take on the Arenas gun incident

For shite's sake

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fighting over $1,100.

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Bravado escalated to point where guns get pulled out, I like how whoever edited his booked put in "it turned into another kind of shootaround"

The story that would've been had Javaris shot and possibly killed Agent 0.

He tried to be something he wasn't. Peer pressure can be a bitch.

That fox sports article on Crittenton was fascinating. The guy had dreams of being a gangster when he wasn't one at all, and in LA, he basically found a large group of middle class guys with the same goals.

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The Mansfield Crips are an anomaly for an L.A. street gang. Members, who are borne from this middle-class neighborhood, are well educated and crisply dressed. Comedian Alex Thomas, who grew up near Pico, calls them “gangsters with two parents.”

As a result of their upbringing, members can often blend into any situation. So when a record label opened a residence to house visiting East Coast artists some 25 years ago within the Mansfield territory, members were easily able to mingle and befriend some of the early luminaries of the rap world.

As hip hop and R&B erupted into the mainstream in the mid-‘90s, Atlanta became a hub, and many of the Mansfields followed their famous friends to help with security detail or in the studio. Some even stayed in Atlanta but still raised their kids loyal to the streets of West L.A.

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LINK

Yeah, I remember you posting that a while back. It blew me away.

Damn animals. They don't value life at all.